Ray Harryhausen DVD reviews

In the current issue of The Austin Chronicle, I reviewed the two recent DVD re-releases of the classic Ray Harryhausen/Charles H. Schneer films It Came From Beneath Sea and Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers.

Handsomely packaged using the original movie posters, both reissues feature the remastered films in their original black and white and in newly crafted, Harryhausen-supervised, colorized versions. As Harryhausen mentions repeatedly throughout the extras, he and Schneer conceived the films in color but were limited financially. The colorization, far superior to the misguided Turner-sponsored attempts of the previous decade, sparkles and actually looks natural.
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